The funeral for Vivian L. Carey will be 11:00AM Thursday, January 26, 2012 in the River Park Chapel building of Macken Funeral Home in Rochester, with the Rev. Linda Helberg officiating. Friends may call one hour prior to the service. Burial will be in Grandview Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Carey, age 88 died Friday, January 20, 2012 at Sunrise Cottages in Rochester.

She was born Vivian Lillian Shanks July 18, 1923 to Ralph and Hazel (Farrend) Shanks in New Haven Township, near Pine Island where she grew up and attended school. On July 13, 1945 she married James L. Carey in Boston, Massachusetts. The couple lived in a number of locations during Mr. Carey's 21 years in the Navy. He retired from the military in 1958 and the family moved back to Rochester where Mr. Carey worked for the Postal Service. He passed away February 5, 1987.

Vivian was a homemaker. She especially loved her grandchildren and enjoyed embroidery and bingo.

Survivors include one son and three daughters: James L. (Ellen) Carey, Jr. of Rochester; Patricia Lee of Hayfield; Virginia Carey and Jean (Will) Stewart, both of Carefree, Ariz. Also surviving are eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She is also survived by three sisters, Gladys Ellefson and Delores Krahn both of Rochester and Mary Dorhman of Fountain, MN, two brothers, Rolland (Donna) Shanks of Pine Island and John (Mary) Shanks of Rochester. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Rudy and Harold Shanks and one sister, Irene Ward.

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